APPLETON - With public input sessions for a possible new dog park and upgrades to Plamann Park now complete, Outagamie County officials will look to craft proposals for each by this fall.

Back-to-back public input sessions regarding conceptual layouts for a new dog park and renovations to Plamann Park were held Monday at Appleton North High School. It marked the second round of public sessions on the projects.

Also, a community input survey has been circulated to encourage feedback on potential changes.

The first session discussed the plans for the county’s dog park, located along French Road. Due to concerns with the current park’s location being next to an expanding landfill, having a lack of easy access to sewer and water services and potential infrastructure changes, the county previously announced two potential new locations — one at State 15 and Casaloma Drive near Fox Cities Stadium in Grand Chute and the other on land adjacent to Brewster Village.

“I think we did receive a lot of positive feedback about both sites,” Kara Homan, Outagamie County director of development and land services, told USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin. “We got a lot of positive attributes to them and both had a few negative, so until we’re able to kind of work through that feedback … there’s a lot more evaluation, but I don’t think either of the sites were thrown out.

“A lot of the feedback was in terms of aesthetics and in terms of characteristics. They very much like the existing site in terms of how there’s trails and there’s a mix of open space as well as wooded areas. So we definitely heard that; for whatever site we choose, ideally we have some wooded area and some open spots.”

Homan said parking, working bathrooms and running water, as well as adequate space, were also brought up at the sessions. Heavy traffic near the Casaloma site was also mentioned as a concern by dog park users.

For Plamann Park, the county isn’t intending to make any major changes, but instead add to the existing park, Homan said.

Three conceptual options were presented at the Monday session.

The overall layout of the park would mostly stay the same in all of the options, Homan said.

Changes being explored include accommodating single track mountain biking and building new tennis and basketball courts. Other changes to Plamann would improve parking issues and traffic and pedestrian flow.

“It came out clear in the input that our intention is to keep it a very natural, open space type of park,” Homan said.

County officials will now study the public input that was provided and pull together conceptual plans for Plamann Park and the dog park before bringing proposals to the county’s Property Committee in the fall.